Speaker 1: This is w b Z, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 2: Sunny in forty eight in Boston at eleven o'clock good
Speaker 2: Friday after morning, almost afternoon. I'm Sherry Small. It's March
Speaker 2: twenty eighth. Here's what's happening. Lawyers for a Tough's graduate
Speaker 2: student file and updated petition challenging her detention by Ice.
Speaker 2: Remesa os Turk was arrested outside her apartment in Somerville
Speaker 2: earlier this week. The new amended petition alleges that the
Speaker 2: government violated os Turk's constitutional rights. It also demands that
Speaker 2: she be brought back to Massachusetts and released from custody.
Speaker 2: Tammy Mutasa, with CBS News Boston, has born.
Speaker 3: Last year, Ramisa was one of the writers of an
Speaker 3: op ed calling for Tufts University to acknowledge genocide in Palestine.
Speaker 3: Tutsa was also the site of a pro Palestinian encampment.
Speaker 3: Secretary of State Marco Rubio addressing the case.
Speaker 4: We gave you a visa to come and study and
Speaker 4: get a degree, not to become a social activist that
Speaker 4: tears up our university campuses. And if we've given you
Speaker 4: a visa and then you decide to do that, we're
Speaker 4: going to take it away.
Speaker 3: Rubio says, at least three hundred foreign students visas have
Speaker 3: been revoked, and once.
Speaker 4: You've lost your visa, you're no longer legally in the
Speaker 4: United States, and we have a right, like every country
Speaker 4: in the world, has a right to remove you from
Speaker 4: our country. So it's just that simple.
Speaker 3: Ramesa was quickly taken out of Massachusetts to a Central
Speaker 3: Louisiana ice detention center before a federal judge issued in
Speaker 3: order limiting the government's ability to move.
Speaker 2: Her, and, according to the Global Harvard Medical School scientists
Speaker 2: from Russia, has been in ice custody for six weeks now.
Speaker 2: Her visa canceled after undeclared frog embryo samples were found
Speaker 2: in our luggage at Logan. Exanna Petrovo was returning from
Speaker 2: a vacation in France in mid February. She was taken
Speaker 2: into ice custody at Logan, then transferred to detention centers
Speaker 2: in Vermont in Louisiana. The Globe says the embriaales are
Speaker 2: crucial to her lab research on gene function, and a
Speaker 2: hearing for her asylum request has now been scheduled for
Speaker 2: May seventh. Her lawyers say that she fears political persecution
Speaker 2: if she is deported to Russia because of her opposition
Speaker 2: to Russia's war with Ukraine. And A massive seven point
Speaker 2: seven magnitude earthquake has hit Thailand's capital of Bangkok.
Speaker 5: The epicenter was in Maynma, where the it's of course
Speaker 5: a civil war raging on, making it very hard to
Speaker 5: get information on the damage and really complicating emergency responses too.
Speaker 5: Our producer there saying that destruction is widespread and the
Speaker 5: expected casualty numbers should be high, with reports of devastated buildings,
Speaker 5: a hospital with patients inside reportedly torn to the ground.
Speaker 2: And that's foreign correspondent Britt Kleine from ABC News. And
Speaker 2: now let's check the acuather forecast. Is a beautiful day today,
Speaker 2: you might want to enjoy it the weekend, and fortunately
Speaker 2: isn't going to be as nice. We'll see high as
Speaker 2: about fifty seven degrees, sunny or partly sonny skies, a
Speaker 2: little bit of a breeze, turning cloudy tonight, some rain later,
Speaker 2: we'll drop down to a low of forty and then
Speaker 2: tomorrow we'll see a few showers. It's going to be
Speaker 2: cloudy highs in Boston forty two, and that high could
Speaker 2: slowly fall throughout the day. Farther south, parts of the
Speaker 2: South Coast Cape and Island can reach the lower fifties
Speaker 2: for highs. Sunday again drizzle, it'll be cloudy, even colder,
Speaker 2: highs near forty. It's going to feel like we're back
Speaker 2: to winter. But Monday we rebound quite a rebound with
Speaker 2: highs into the low sixties. We could see some showers
Speaker 2: hanging on and rather cloudy skies, but high could bump
Speaker 2: to sixty four. It's sunny and forty eight in Boston
Speaker 2: at eleven oh five on this Friday morning, a new
Speaker 2: safety task force is launched in the city of Boston
Speaker 2: to reduce crime, drug use, in homelessness. WBC's James Rojas
Speaker 2: reports from Downtown.
Speaker 1: Crossing Downtown Boston is the main focus of this new
Speaker 1: task force. It's made up of a coalition of city
Speaker 1: and state officials, law enforcement, and community organizations tackling issues
Speaker 1: impacting public safety.
Speaker 6: Congregate drug use, homelessness in retail. Theft.
Speaker 1: Rishi Shukla, co founder of the Downtown Boston Neighborhood Association,
Speaker 1: is on the task force.
Speaker 6: We've had some issues here over the last twenty four months. Stabbings, shootings,
Speaker 6: other things. It happens across the country, happens across all
Speaker 6: the parts of the city, but we've had a couple
Speaker 6: of inches here where residents do not feel safe going
Speaker 6: to different parts of the neighborhood because of these high
Speaker 6: profile incidents. When you have kids walking to school and
Speaker 6: they're stabbing on the common, you can't have that.
Speaker 1: This is an effort to streamline services, resources and strategies
Speaker 1: to improve public safety and perception in downtown crossing. James
Speaker 1: Rojas WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Vice president JD Vance is visiting Greenland today. ABC's Terry
Speaker 2: Morgan reports that residents there are on edge.
Speaker 7: Karon Nuk, Greenland's capital. You can hear the concern about
Speaker 7: what all this might mean. Do you think this is
Speaker 7: pressure on you guys much?
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Second, Lady Ushavinz had a first plan to attend a
Speaker 7: dog sled race and promote cultural ties, but those plans
Speaker 7: were dropped. Many people here do want to see a
Speaker 7: deeper enhanced relationship with the US. There's a lot of
Speaker 7: resentment against Denmark, but an American takeover of Greenland.
Speaker 2: Most people reject that and the visit happening days after
Speaker 2: President Trump promised to take over the island. And meanwhile,
Speaker 2: President Trump has reportedly frustrated that the Signal group chat
Speaker 2: story has remained in the headlines this as he continues
Speaker 2: to downplay it. CBS is Olivia Ronaldi with me, no.
Speaker 8: One has lost their job yet, But of course, as
Speaker 8: this story continues, as there is now an investigation in
Speaker 8: Congress into this, and also some reaction in the courts
Speaker 8: that certainly this is something that's not just going to
Speaker 8: go away.
Speaker 2: And the group chat in question revealed information about strikes
Speaker 2: on Yemen. Editor in chief of The Atlantic Jeff Goldberg,
Speaker 2: was accidentally added to the chat. The Massachusettstate Inspector General
Speaker 2: finds one point seven million dollars in uncollected cannabis licensing fees,
Speaker 2: pointing the blame on the Cannabis Control Commission. The Loulsun reporting,
Speaker 2: the Inspector General says the Cannabis Commission failed to collect
Speaker 2: five hundred and fifty thousand dollars in pro rated licensing
Speaker 2: fees up to one point two million in provisional license fees,
Speaker 2: this happening over a two year span from August of
Speaker 2: twenty twenty two to August of twenty twenty four. A
Speaker 2: complaint in twenty twenty four spurred the investigation. You are
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